Conan’s Corpse Picker

"So that's it."

The Otaki Police Department has experienced too many murder cases recently, and its brain, which was not very active, started to move even more slowly.

Hearing what Jiang Xia said, he didn't think much about it. When he looked at the vodka again, the suspicion in the police department's eyes disappeared, leaving only a hint of disappointment: there were a lot of people thinner than the man in sunglasses caught on the street, so this clue really didn't have much reference value. It would be easier if it were the other way around... But I can only write down this feature first.

Vodka peeked out of the corner of his eye and noticed that the policeman was looking at him, which gradually changed from full of suspicion to full of calm. Not only was his heart not at all relaxed, but he was tense with a sense of crisis.

Vodka: "..." Uzo said that he had no suspicion, but the police believed him so easily.

...Then what if the other way around is that Uzo says he is suspicious?

As a member of the organization, even if he is just "suspected", he faces the risk of being silenced - but this method is too straightforward and lacks artistic sense, so Uzo does not often use it. And if one day, Uzo abandons his principles...

Vodka was horrified, as if he had seen that terrible future.

He silently pushed up his sunglasses and decided to stay as far away from Uzo as he could when he was alone in the future. He would always pay attention to the opponent's position when approaching him and determined not to let tonight's mistake happen again.

…

While Vodka was silently filling in the gaps in his knowledge about Uzo.

Next to him, completely different from the picture in his mind, detectives and police officers were still diligently solving the case.

Although a large group of witnesses who went shopping at night could not clearly see who the figure was who escaped from the murder scene in the darkness, after all, there were enthusiastic detectives present and there were many clues left at the scene.

So soon, the Otaki Police Department received other extremely useful information.

"You saw the crime scene at 7:30, and immediately called the police. At this time, the deceased on the ground was already dead." The Otaki Police Department looked at the content just written down in the small book and confirmed to several people, "And Before that, at around 7:10, when you were leaving the hotel, did you see the deceased going out?"

Jiang Xia nodded.

The Otaki Police Department breathed a sigh of relief: "In this case, the matter is very clear. The time of death of the deceased was between 7:10 and 7:30. The murder weapon was a prop used by the crew for filming..."

He turned to several of his subordinates: "Find the crew and ask them who didn't have an alibi during that time!"

…

The hotel is not far from the shrine.

Not long after, a group of people from the crew arrived near the shrine. They looked at the corpses on the ground with expressions of fear, shock, or panic.

After the Otaki Police Department listened carefully to the relationship between the crew members, they patted their foreheads and suddenly had inspiration:

"The murder knife used in the murder was taken from the crew. The bloody words left by the deceased also read 'コマイヌ', which refers to the stone statue at the entrance of the shrine. Combining these two points, we can see the identity of the murderer. It’s already very clear. The only person who interacts with the crew and the shrine at the same time is the assistant lady who lives at the shrine!”

"...Me?" Taeko Dogaki was startled, her face looked ugly, and she waved her hands repeatedly, "I did leave for a while, but it was just to go home and pick up things."

Next to her, her fiancé's assistant also took a step forward and stood in front of her: "Taeko doesn't know how to kill!"

Yoko Kinoshita was familiar with them and testified in a low voice: "When we went out to buy things just now, we not only met the deceased who was going out, but also met Taeko at the gate - she has an alibi."

"..."

Mao Lilan looked at the Otaki Police Department, tilted his head in confusion, and whispered to Jiang Xia and Suzuki Sonoko: "I don't know why, but this police officer looks very friendly when he solves the case."

Jiang Xia looked at the Otaki Police Department and nodded slightly:... He has a bit of the charm and style of Mouri Kogoro.

"...Oh, it turns out there is an alibi. Sorry, there were too many people in the crew, so I forgot about it." Otaki Police Department cleared his throat shamelessly and changed the subject.

He turned to urge the subordinates who were checking the murder weapon next to him: "Extract the fingerprints as soon as possible!"

The subordinate shook his head in embarrassment: "Police Department, there are no complete fingerprints on it - judging from the rough traces, someone specially wiped it."

As a professional who is often responsible for cleaning up, Vodka glanced at the knife and snorted coldly: The murderer is really a stupid waste - he just took the knife away and threw it to the bottom of the river far away, rather than wipe it and then wipe it. Is it better to leave the knife at the scene? Without this knife, the scope of the murderer will be infinitely expanded. Unlike now, the murderer is immediately locked among the crew members... No, wait.

Halfway through the criticism, Vodka suddenly realized that this was probably not something the murderer could control, but that he had been hinted and influenced by Uzo through some channels that were difficult for ordinary people to detect, so he deliberately left the knife behind. Crime scene.

——Otherwise, if the police really go outside and cast a wide net, and then cannot solve the case for a long time, then as a murder drama, it will be too poor to watch, and Uzo will not allow this to happen.

Vodka: "..." In addition, when the murderer left the knife at the scene, he was definitely not thinking "someone asked me to leave the knife", but he thought he left the knife "autonomously"...

After thinking about it, a possibility came to Vodka's mind.

——Could it be that the murderer wanted to use this knife to use the title of "murderer" to blame other people in the crew?

"..." No wonder there were so many actors on stage this time, so many that he had trouble remembering them. It seems that the plot is quite complicated...

Next to him, the eyes of Otaki Police Department inadvertently glanced at Vodka, and he couldn't help but be startled: This trainee detective thought so attentively, and showed a little "I see!" expression from time to time... He is indeed an assistant recognized by Jiang Xia, although he is still I don’t know what “Mr. Yamada” guessed, but at least there is nothing wrong with his attitude.

…

After all, Otaki Police Department is a police officer who often cooperates with Hattori Heiji, and he has quite a lot of experience in how to get along with detectives.

At this time, thinking of the two detectives next to him, he made up his mind and decided not to speculate randomly, but to give the detectives a little more information and wait for them to spit out the answers.

So the Otaki Police Department organized the notes on the notepad and began to check everyone's alibi:

"During the period I just mentioned, there were only two people who were not at the scene and were alone... huh? There were only two people - only this assistant who was hanging out, and the one who didn't live with other people and went to live alone. Actors in the hotel. Can you tell me what you were doing at the time?"